Monday, March 25, 2013

China Glaze ~ Bizarre Blurple with smudged stamp...

It was a collection which there was a huge fuss about, because it turned
out that the artwork used in marketing the collection was actually stolen. The
artist that China Glaze hired to make some pretty artwork, actually (and very
cheekily) took some of Abigail Larson’s artwork and made it his own instead. That’s
just too naughty, in my book – it’s actually called ‘Plagiarism’, you know. The
incident was resolved though... China Glaze went after the hired artist, and then
offered Abigail both compensation and a job. So justice was served. Check out
the original artwork vs. the stolen product at the end of this post. Abigail is
good, and no doubt China Glaze’s hired hand appreciated that, and sadly had
nothing original in his own head to offer.

OK. The formula is typical for China Glaze, which works fine for me. It
took two coats to reach desired opaqueness, and I must say that Bizzare Blurple
fits its name perfectly. It isn’t really blue and it isn’t really purple, but
it sure is pretty!

Here’s an attempt of catching it’s beauty:

I had stamping in mind for this baby, but that was a mistake. I chose
Cheeky stamping plate CH07, and stamped with Essie’s Nothing Else Metals, which
is a lovely silvery lilac metallic polish, that’s perfect for stamping. But not
today! I don’t know what went wrong, but all my stamps smeared and got to look
extremely ugly. I don’t know if the design may be etched a little too deep on
the plate, or what the problem was, but fact is, that I’m not going to use that
stamp again, that’s for sure.

Here’s how it looked:

There’s a coat of Poshé top coat over it – but just for the record: It
was smeared before the top coat was involved.

And here’s the promised picture of the artwork there was such a fuss
about last autumn.